Kyrgyz Women’s Initiative
Kyrgyz Women’s Leadership Development and NGO Capacity – Building is a two-year, multi-phase program. The project is designed to positively impact emerging professionals (community leaders, political leaders, educators, and youth workers), to strengthen grassroots organizations in the Republic of Kyrgyzstan, as well as the mutual understanding of the role of civil society in the U.S. and Kyrgyzstan.
Program Time: January 2010 through December 2011.
Delegates: 11 Kyrgyz women and 7 U.S. delegates comprise the initial exchange groups. In Kyrgyzstan, the project is having a wide outreach, positively impacting the lives and capacity of women leaders of NGOs and Kyrgyz trainers, and additional community leaders and organizers.
Delegates contemplate the inter-faith issues involved in community development and healthcare at Center for Interfaith Action On Poverty (CIFA).
Project activities:
- A professional development program in the United States for 11 Kyrgyz women, includes training and networking with peers in US organizations.
- While in the U.S., delegates lived with an American family, for a cross-cultural host family experience.
- Follow-on projects are carried out by each alumna, each supported by $1,000 mini-grants from Legacy.
- An outbound trip for 7 U.S. professionals working in fields similar to those of the Kyrgyz participants, during which organizational development consultations to NGOs will be offered.
- Training forum for an additional 75 NGO leaders organized by Legacy and using U.S. and Kyrgyz trainers; and grassroots organizing training to be offered to local Kyrgyz women by the 12 alumni of the U.S. program.
Read U.S. participant testimonials from this successful program, those who travelled to Central Asia share their viewpoints of their experiences in Kyrgyzstan.
Read about the efforts of Kyrgyz participant, Zhumagul Bolponova, in her community in following article, “A Legacy of Ethnic Cooperation”
[...] I consider a training session I’m working on for a trip to Kyrgyzstan with Legacy International on conflict management, I referred back to the fellow that I believe is the absolute most sensible [...]
Dear Dilfuza,
We are glad to learn of your organization and wish you the very best.
In September, Legacy will be bringing a delegation of US experts to give two day seminars on NGO capacity building in Bishkek, Osh, and Jelalabad which you and your staff may wish to attend. We will forward your information to our partner, Interbilim, who will be disseminating information mid-June and July to women’s organizations in KR.
Thank you for your interest.
Dear Dilfuza: We at Legacy applaud you on your great work! Unfortunately, we are not a funding organization; however we may be able to collaborate with you on some projects. Someone from our team will be in touch.
Dear the Foundation,
Our organization work with urban women, we opened the Assossiation of women and we want to involve almost all women of our region. We want to conduct traings and seminars for women and girls. We want to educate women and make one strong unity of urban women, we want to explain them our rights, capacibilities, and our role on child raising. We have been seeking for donnors for our projects, and can your Fund support us?
Best regards Dilfuza,
Kyrgyzstan, NGO Aravan Jardam Fondu,
Women Assossiation.